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A misleading advertisement by pro-SB 5
group Building a Better Ohio has been pulled from nearly 30 TV
stations, including two in Cincinnati. Here's the original report
about Building a Better Ohio splicing the an ad created by
We Are Ohio. The Columbus Dispatch's “Ad Watch” had
already designated the Building a Better Ohio version as “misleading”
because Republican spending cuts are largely to blame for any
firefighter layoff decisions local governments are facing.

The Enquirer today reported that
County Commissioners have stopped a plan by city officials to use $3
million in sewer money to move some super-old pipes out from where
the streetcar will be constructed. Streetcar planners say it's common
for societies that build things to consider the future costs of
fixing stuff underneath them, while streetcar opponents call any
government spending they don't like taxation without representation:

“I’m
against the streetcar, but nobody has ever asked me,” Barbara
Holwadel, 53, of Madeira, told commissioners. “I never have gotten
to vote on it, doesn’t look I will get to.

“So as far as I
am concerned, if they start trying to go after money through my MSD
bill that is taxation without representation.”

(When the rest of us get to start voting on the county's billions of
dollars in highway funding you can vote on the $100 million
streetcar. Plus you already did.)

Two weeks ago Ohio's new concealed carry law allowed gun owners to
pack heat inside bars and restaurants that serve alcohol. Yesterday
the state got to arrest its first gun-carrier for threatening to kill
someone. Probably just an anomaly and won't cost the state tons of
money in enforcement, prosecutions, jail space, lawsuits and deaths.

Supporters of the new law say it
worked as intended in this case. They say O’Reilly will lose his
concealed-carry permit and could face up to five years in jail if he
is convicted of violating the new gun law – stiffer penalties than
he would have faced under the old law.

“This fellow made a serious
mistake,” said state Sen. Bill Seitz, R-Green Township, who
supported changing the law. “Nothing in the law allows you to do
anything other than carry a gun into an establishment if you have a
permit.

“It does not give you license to
brandish a gun and wave it around.”

Here's what happens when you invest
resources in public schools with a long-term vision: “The addition
of a School-Based Health Center at this high-poverty school five
years ago has been the biggest contributing factor to the school's
academic turnaround, said Principal Craig Hockenberry. It's often the
only access to health care these students have. Having a clinic
physically located in their school keeps them healthy, focused and in
school.”